Katharine DeBrecht’s children’s book, Help Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed!, can be summed up in one word. Hilarious. Every page brought a new chuckle.

Tommy and Lou, two young boys, decide they want a swingset like all of their friends are getting. But Tommy and Lou’s mom suggests that the boys earn it instead of having it given to them, which leads ultimately to an entrepreneurial lemonade stand. The boys have a dream, in which the “liberals” one by one come in and take half their money in taxes (Ted Kennedy), require that they take down the picture of Jesus that is on their stand (the ACLU), require that they give out broccoli with each glass of lemonade sold and put caps on the amount of sugar per glass (Hillary). Eventually, in their dream, the lemonade stand is so weighed down with red tape that it begins to fail, and the liberals take over because it is now obvious that these two boys can’t run a lemonade stand on their own. There are press conferences and useless handouts to poor kids woven throughout as well.

The story, as others have noted, has great full color illustrations and is billed as a book for children ages 4-8, but realistically, it’s funnier as an adult. The message is dead on, despite the lampooning that this book has received from some of my more liberal friends. I highly recommend this book as a coffee table novelty item in addition to being a fun children’s introduction to the economics of taxation and regulation in a free market economy.

Others are commenting on this book as well.

Dan Phillips:

The ideas are very good. It felt as if the humor could have used a bit more polish and honing, the analogies a bit more work. My family observed that the title doesn’t actually work into the story at any point, clever though it is. Nonetheless, if the target is younger children, it was a total success with mine; and the back of the book suggests that more are on the way.

Taegan Goddard thought it was a joke.

Shakespeare’s Sister doesn’t appreciate the humor.

If only this were a joke, but it’s not. This adorable little book which recasts liberals as the monsters that children find under their beds is described as “a fun way for parents to teach young children the valuable lessons of conservatism.” What are those valuable lessons, you ask? Namely, that liberals will ruin your life!

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This book is recommended for children 4-8, which has apparently been identified by conservatives as the perfect age range to begin the indoctrination of children with hatemongering against their fellow Americans. Well decided, I say. You can’t start early enough helping children unlearn the intellectualism, logic, reason, and critical thinking skills that are foisted down their throats at that liberal brainwashing factory known as the public school system.

Likewise, Cookie Christine doesn’t find funny the obvious hyperbole.

Call me crazy, but when’s the last time a liberal demanded that a private enterprise couldn’t display a picture of Jesus or demanded that they sell something that they don’t want to sell? And since when are taxes half of a business’s revenue?

Andrew Sullivan got conned by fabricated pictures (ie. satire) from the book that were posted on the DU’s Top Ten Conservative Idiots list.

And Matt over at B4B thinks that the liberal reactions shown above are enough to make him want to buy it.

If that’s not enough to convince you to get this book, whether it be for your kids, your friend’s kids, expectant parents, or whomever, I am sure you can tell by the reaction of liberals that this is a book worth getting.

Note: I received this book as a gift from the publisher through Mind & Media.